there are several areas in the office where people just drop off stuff they do not want. so i found a sealed copy of the oren lavie album the opposite side of the sea… and i think i like it this weekend. the weather is turning crisp, i planted over 30 tulips today… it is a good sound. happy times. thank you for recordning the album in your apartment in belin, oren.

It must have been Christmas of 1984 (and I had just turned 14.) My favorite music was probably enola gay by omd. I had an old sharp tapedeck someone threw out, and it kept playing my cassettes bravely in my little room overlooking fields and houses in Germany.
My mother must have looked for a present for me in the last minutes of the last shopping day, or maybe the story was true and she really picked the cassette she bought for me because of the friendly photograph on the cover. I found myself looking at a fresh copy…

Somehow there is this really frantic little track in my iTunes library and it is Ilanaimono lisuto by hi-posi. And I was able to listen to some of their other tracks on preview here (thank you audioscrobbler) but I am not sure where I can actually buy the music. I tried to log myself into amazon japan (oh boy) but that really did not work so well.
Hmm… maybe I should just ask my friends in Japan to help me, but I feel a little bad doing that. Hmm, maybe I should.
The more I write about my Hi-Posi…

architecture in helsinki is drawing me in deeper and deeper into their charm. how will i be able to resist? I do not even like the most popular songs yet! The more I listen to in case we die the more I want to listen to it. This is a dangerous situation. I can not resist, I can not resist. It should be so easy.
I gave some songs just three stars, just to tell myself that they are not really that great, but then I keep listening to them over and over again.
Right now it is mostly Maybe…

Just listened to Spinning on Air on WNYC (good old radio) and the tracks by James Blackshaw were really excellent. iTunes does not have his stuff yet and so I will probably need to buy some more plastic disks again. Oh, and he actually has a website here it is: http://shoryobuni.f2g.net/sunshrine/

Came across clap your hands say yeah at Swallow, a very friendly little store on Smith street in Carroll Gardens (that's Brooklyn, NY for all those who do not know.) I was a bit worried that I would not be able to find the album anywhere, as it did not appear to be distributed via a major label. I just realized that the record is actually available at the iTunes store… so I would have been able to get it, I guess (for less), but then I would not have helped Swallow, and would have missed out on those rather…

just managed to download that last fm player and the very first track the thing played was Get Your Snack On from Supermodified. I liked the track, and got the album. Playing it now. Thank you audioscrobbler. :-)